Text-dependent speaker verification using vector quantization source coding

Several vector quantization approaches to the problem of text-dependent speaker verification are described. In each of these approaches, a source codebook is designed to represent a particular speaker saying a particular utterance. Later, this same utterance is spoken by a speaker to be verified and is encoded in the source codebook representing the speaker whose identity was claimed. The speaker is accepted if the verification utterance´s quantization distortion is less than a prespecified speaker-specific threshold. The best approach achieved a 0.7 percent false acceptance rate and a 0.6 percent false rejection rate on a speaker population comprising 16 admissible speakers and 111 casual imposters. The approaches are described, and detailed experimental results are presented and discussed.